Moreover, brethren, I would not that ye should be ignorant, how
that al our fathers were under the cloud, and all passed through
the sea.
- Bible, I Corinthians (ch. X, v. 1)

And it can to pass at the seventh time, that he said, Behold,
there ariseth a little cloud out of the sea, like a man's hand.
And he said, Go up, say unto Ahab, Prepare thy chariot, and get
thee down, that the rain stop thee not.
- Bible, I Kings (ch. XVIII, v. 44)

Bless the Lord, O my soul. O Lord my God, thou art very great;
thou art clothed with honour and majesty.
Who coverest thyself with light as with a garment: who stretches
out the heavens like a curtain:
Who layeth the beams of his chambers in the waters: who maketh
the clouds his chariot: who walketh upon the wings of the wind:
Who maketh his angels spirits; his ministers a flaming fire:
Who laid the foundations of the earth, that it should not be
removed for ever.
- Bible, Psalms (ch. CIV, v. 1-5)

I saw two clouds at morning
Tinged by the rising sun,
And in the dawn they floated on
And mingled into one.
- John Gardiner Calkins Brainard, I Saw Two Clouds at Morning

Were I a cloud I'd gather
My skirts up in the air,
And fly well know whither,
And rest I well know where.
- Robert Seymour Bridges, Elegy--The Cliff Top--A Cloud

Cloud-walls of the morning's gray
Faced with amber column,
Crowned with crimson cupola
From a sunset solemn.
May-mists, for the casements, fetch,
Pale and glimmering,
With a sunbeam hid in each,
And a smell of spring.
- Elizabeth Barrett Browning

O, it is pleasant, with a heart at ease,
Just after sunset, or by moonlight skies,
To make the shifting clouds be what you please,
Or let the easily persuaded eyes
Own each quaint likeness issuing from the mould
Of a friend's fancy.
- Samuel Taylor Coleridge, Fancy in Nubibus

Though outwardly a gloomy shroud,
The inner half of every cloud
Is bright and shining:
I therefore turn my clouds about
And always wear them inside out
To show the lining.
- Ellen Thorneycroft Fowler (Mrs. A.L. Felkin), Wisdom of Folly

When scattered clouds are resting on the bosoms of hills, it
seems as if one might climb into the heavenly region, earth being
so intermixed with sky, and gradually transformed into it.
- Nathaniel Hawthorne

The clouds,--the only birds that never sleep.
- Victor Hugo, The Vanished City

Those clouds are angels' robes.--That fiery west
Is paved with smiling faces.
- Charles Kingsley